'ICC could prosecute low-ranking IDF soldiers' Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, tells Haaretz that both low-ranking Israelis, as well as Palestinians, are not immune from investigation into war crimes.

Israel's secret weapon: The New York Times Israel is turning to the media and diplomacy to head off an almost inevitable new round of confrontation with Hezbollah. Its message: Israel won't be able to avoid attacks on Lebanon's civilians so long as the Shi'ite militias use them as human shields.

US media and pro-Israel antics in Congress
The United States is on the verge of institutionally supporting
Israel’s illegal settlement profiteering, and the mainstream media are
saying nothing, writes James Zogby

Why Jewish Fundamentalism Is More Brazen Than Ever — and Not Just on the Plane
There’s
a Hasidic man arguing with the gate agent at the Phoenix airport. He’s
claiming that he can’t be seated next to a woman because of his
religion – even though Hasidic men have sat next to women on airplanes
and buses and in shared taxis for decades, until they gained enough
political power in Israel to try to segregate buses and seating on El
Al.

US Jews live in a different reality to Israelis Op-ed: American Jews don't face the same daily threats as their European co-religionists, nor do they live in a country that is anything but pro-Israel.
Comme si les Américains étaient amoureux fous des juifs et comme si l'Europpe était pleine de nazis!

Everybody Hates the Jews! A poll found that 71% of Israelis think that the world has a double standard when it comes to criticizing Israel. Do most Israelis think that the whole world is against us? If so, how does that belief affect our politics?

MORE ZIOLIES TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT BDS New York Councilor Petitions to Ban Roger Waters from US. Long Island councilman Bruce Blakeman says notorious anti-Israel musician’s actions would be a hate crime in the US.

Michael Oren's contempt for U.S. Jews Far from the genuine respect you would expect from a former Israeli ambassador, Oren seems to view America's Jews as unreliable and quick to criticize the Jewish state.

Ya'alon: There is no humanitarian distress in Gaza Ya'alon's words, coming a year after Operation Protective Edge, when according to United Nations figures almost 1,500 Palestinian civilians were killed, including 500 children, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes, contradict a series of international reports on the situation in Gaza. For example, a report published by the World Bank a month ago presented a harsh picture of the economic situation in Gaza and asserted that unemployment in the Strip is the highest in the world.

Trump's real mistake? Not running in Israel. And we've got just the party for him If only he would consider running with Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud. He would be perfect. He'd fit right in. It's not just the comb-over and the billions. It's the racism.

Israeli settlements profit from Palestinian children
Palestinian children are working under exploitative conditions on
Israeli settlements, ensuring handsome profits for the settlers. As Mel
Frykberg reports from the West Bank, the children are too afraid to
speak out.

(..)In his 20 minute appeal, Obama repeatedly weaved two themes known to strike a chord among progressives: the Iraq war, and the role of big money in Washington’s decision making process. When put together it sounded something like this: Criticism of the deal, he said, comes “partly from the $20 million that’s being spent lobbying against the bill,” and “partly from the same columnists and former administration officials that were responsible for us getting into the Iraq war.“ The wording, though chosen carefully as not to conflate the two groups, treaded into a highly sensitive area for some in the Jewish community.
The mention of $20 million is a clear reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is leading the lobbying efforts against the Iran deal and has raised, through a sister organization, this sum in order to fight for disapproving the agreement. Tying AIPAC and those who pushed for military intervention in Iraq in the same argument, could be read as accepting the notion that the American Jewish community was behind the Iraq war. It is a notion the organized pro-Israel community has been trying to fight off for over a decade. The idea that Jews laid the groundwork for the Iraq war stems, in part, from the fact that several national security and defense advisers in the Bush administration were Jewish neo-conservatives who supported the war. The organized Jewish community, however, did not call on the Bush administration to launch a military offensive against Iraq. The reference was not lost on Jewish officials who are attuned to this sensitivity. “Canard,” tweeted William Daroff of the Jewish Federations of North America as Obama spoke on the conference call. And while Obama may have had no intention of giving credence to it, the pronounced equation he made between those supporting the Iraq war and those opposing the Iran deal, is likely to make many in the community feel uneasy. As is the reference to “billionaires” bankrolling the political effort to defeat the agreement in Congress. “You’ve got a whole bunch of folks who are big check writers to political campaigns, running TV ads, and billionaires who happily finance SuperPACs and they are putting the squeeze on members of Congress,” Obama said. Again, Obama made no direct reference to any individual involved in funding the drive against the Iran deal, but it is clear that most of the money raised by pro-Israel groups for this campaign has come from Jewish donors. And the Republican Jewish Coalition was quick to issue a statement condemning Obama for “demonizing” opponents of the deal and reminding Jewish leaders that when George H. W. Bush complained in 1991 about the power of lobbyists, he was criticized by Jewish groups for what was seen as a negative reference to the political power of Jewish Americans. (...)

ISRAEL ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS – MUST READ
YNET – Analysis: Israel is willing to do anything to thwart the nuclear
deal, including publicly threatening Iranian scientists, interfering
with the internal affairs of the US, and dividing US Jews; meanwhile,
Netanyahu’s mistaken 2002 assessment of Iraq is coming back to haunt him
in his battle against Tehran.

US Jews must stay true to 'never again' pledge
Op-ed: American Jews, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, will have to
choose the Jewish state’s survival and security over the legacy of and
loyalty to a lame duck president from the party they support.

Netanyahu warns that nuclear deal ‘paves Iran’s path’ to a bomb
| March 3 2015 Publicly, Israel neither confirms nor denies that it has
nuclear weapons. But many experts in nuclear arms believe that Israel
has extensive capabilities. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a disgruntled
Israeli technician at a suspected nuclear facility, leaked photos to a
British newspaper that led foreign experts to conclude that Israel had a
large nuclear arsenal. Israeli intelligence agents later arrested
Vanunu in Rome.

The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal
Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs
since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US,
turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nuclear
ambitions if the Israelis won't come clean? 15 jan 2015

Deputy Speaker of Knesset ready to serve as Israel's new executioner Remember the name Bezalel Smotrich. If a planned vote this week on the death penalty will separate the True Right from the hangers-on, his place is assured.
Yes, the same far-right activist who was once reportedly held by the Shin Bet on suspicion of endangering human life, malicious damage, membership in a banned organization and sedition.

Israel arrests hunger striker Khader Adnan day after releasing himPalestinian
and Israeli media reported that Adnan was detained on his way to
worship at al-Aqsa mosque on the occasion of Leilat al-Qadr, which
Muslims observe during Ramadan to mark the revelation of the Quran to
the Prophet Muhammad. Israel imposes severe restrictions on
Palestinians living under its military occupation regime.

Why Jewish Terror Is Different This Time The
suspect in the gay parade stabbing, Yishai Schlissel, is a
self-appointed anti-gay vigilante who was known to the police — in fact,
he’d just been released from prison a month earlier after serving 10
years for a nearly identical attack in 2005. He’s a member of
Jerusalem’s Haredi or ultra-Orthodox community, which generally rejects
Zionist nationalism. Most Haredi Jews believe Israel is not the promised
Jewish commonwealth because the ancient kingdom can’t be restored until
God sends the messiah. The West Bank arson is believed by authorities
to be the work of a group of religious nationalist militants from a
nearby Jewish settlement. The settler movement historically grew out of
the religious wing of Zionism, which takes the opposite view from
Haredim: It holds that the founding of modern Israel is itself evidence
that the era of messianic redemption is either underway or imminent.
The West Bank arson comes at a time when incidents of settler unrest are
very much in the Israeli headlines, heightening the sense of crisis. On
Wednesday, July 22, two brothers ages 19 and 21 from the large urban
settlement of Beitar Illit, south of Jerusalem, were sentenced for the
torching last November of a progressive Jewish-Arab school in the
capital. They were members of a far-right organization, Lehava (a Hebrew
acronym for Stop Assimilation in the Holy Land), founded by a former
aide to the late Meir Kahane, which aims to prevent marriage, dating and
fraternization between Jews and Arabs. The brothers were sentenced to
two and two-and-a-half years, prompting protests from parents and school
officials that the sentence was too lenient.

We're no better than our enemies
Op-ed: Jewish terrorists are just the messengers; there is a well-oiled
system of incitement behind them which starts with the person who says
the High Court should be razed with bulldozers, with those who stand on
balconies and encourage lawbreakers and with those who reward violence.

Pyromania in the name of God
Op-ed: It's easy to see the ongoing harassment of clergymen and
churches in Israel as an expression of the world-view of 'errant weeds';
unfortunately, these weeds may be errant, but are fed by fertile
ground.

ISRAEL ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS – MUST READ
YNET – Analysis: Israel is willing to do anything to thwart the nuclear
deal, including publicly threatening Iranian scientists, interfering
with the internal affairs of the US, and dividing US Jews; meanwhile,
Netanyahu’s mistaken 2002 assessment of Iraq is coming back to haunt him
in his battle against Tehran.

Gideon Levy is the One-trick Pony of Israeli Journalism Opposition leader Isaac Herzog responds to criticism levelled against him by Haaretz's Gideon Levy, arguing that making peace also means fighting terror - not just accepting the Palestinian narrative hook, line and sinker.

Boehner’s Successor Will Be pro-Israel, but Netanyahu Should Worry Nonetheless
Surprise resignation of Speaker could harm GOP’s 2016 electoral chances
and strengthen Tea Party types less attached to Israel. Now Boehner can tell us what really happened with Netanyahu’s speech
(...) Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer’s agreement to keep secret
Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
address Congress — at the speaker’s request. Boehner and Dermer have
confirmed that the ambassador, who had consulted with Netanyahu, agreed
to keep the secret, from the Obama administration, congressional
Democrats and pro-Israel groups, including AIPAC. Boehner has said he
asked for secrecy to keep Obama from nixing the speech.(...) Dermer’s
“yes” meant Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the House, had to enter
the trenches in the effort to push back Boehner’s effort to kill the
deal — which was ultimately successful. Going forward, his “yes” means
Democrats on Capitol Hill are no longer so eager to return calls from
the Israeli embassy. It means there’s discussion on the Hill about
whether the “Israel is GOP territory” tag will die when Netanyahu leaves
office, or outlast him.

In a Moment of Euphoria, Netanyahu Made a Very Revealing Slipup
Thus spake the minister of defense, and his remarks have not yet been “seared into the consciousness”: “We know who burned the Dawabsheh family, but we cannot prosecute them because of the sensitivity of the sources.” That’s
our Bogie, who was never considered the most guided and accurate weapon
in the arsenal, and who even as a dairyman on the kibbutz would
entertain the cows to increase their milk yield. Did you get that? It
takes great effort to build an intelligence source, so it would be a
pity to blow his cover. His immunity also gives the murderers immunity. Bogie
knows, and that should suffice. That’s why we included him in “the list
of the most unforgettable quotes”; we shall not forget.

The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion
BY HESHAM TILLAWI (...)Secret letters and
secret meetings between Kennedy and Ben-Gurion give a clear picture of
the difficulty Kennedy faced in negotiating with the Israeli Prime
Minister who stated many times that nothing will save Israel but nuclear
power. According to author Michael Collins Piper in his book Final
Judgment Ben Gurion wrote Kennedy saying: “Mr. President, my people have
the right to exist, and this existence is in danger.”

WATCH: Trump, Carson Will 'Have Blood on Their Hands' if
Gunman Targets Mosque, Says Jebreal 'In the realm of possibility in a
country that is very armed that somebody that will be carrying weapon
will go to a mosque tomorrow or after tomorrow and would start shooting
people and then these people would have blood on their hands.'

FLASHBACK: The world was right about Iraq– though Israel got its ‘Clean Break’, June 14, 2014Enter the Bush Doctrine
The four pillars of the president's strategy for winning World War IV.
By [ULTRA-ZIONIST NEOCON JEW] Norman Podhoretz Updated Sept. 2, 2004
(Editor's note: This is excerpted from Mr. Podhoretz's article, "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win," which appears in the September issue of Commentary.) Voir la version française (et résumée) de Réseau Voltaire.
Podhoretz sur les Troisième et Quatrième guerres mondiales: "For
these reasons, I agree with one of our leading contemporary students of
military strategy, Eliot A. Cohen, who thinks that what is generally
called the "Cold War" (a term, incidentally, coined by Soviet
propagandists) should be given a new name. "The Cold War," Mr. Cohen
writes, was actually "World War III, which reminds us that not all
global conflicts entail the movement of multimillion-man armies, or
conventional front lines on a map." I also agree that the nature of the
conflict in which we are now engaged can only be fully appreciated if we
look upon it as World War IV. To justify giving it this name--rather
than, say, the "war on terrorism"--Mr. Cohen lists "some key features"
that it shares with World War III: that it is, in fact, global; that it
will involve a mixture of violent and nonviolent efforts; that it will
require mobilization of skill, expertise and resources, if not of vast
numbers of soldiers; that it may go on for a long time; and that it has
ideological roots. There is one more feature that World War IV shares
with World War III and that Mr. Cohen does not mention: Both were
declared through the enunciation of a presidential doctrine."

Avraham Burg on 'The Coming Days'
Former senior politician is releasing a new book which calls on Israel
to analyze its collective past to improve its future. Il a écrit "The
Holocaust is Over - We Must Rise From Its Ashes"

Sakhnin’s mayor, Mazen Ghnaim, who is also the acting head of the
Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, said at the rally: “We warned ahead of
time and we said ‘stop the extremists,’ but no one listened. The
Palestinian people went out to protect its rights and for independence
and liberation from the occupation.

What you don’t know about Marco Rubio The GOP presidential candidate's main patron is a
Jewish billionaire, he's hawkish on Israel and he has belonged to Mormon
and Baptist churches despite being Catholic.

Israel: A lesson in anti-democracy Op-ed:
Justice minister Ayelet Shaked aims to label 'Israel haters' by making
representatives of leftist NGOs wear badges during Knesset discussions.
So what color will she choose for the leftist patch?

President's wife put under guard
Due to possible incitement against President Rivlin on social media, a
personal security detail has been assigned to his wife Nechama. (...)
Hagai Amir, brother of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir, was arrested
last week on suspicion of incitement against Rivlin. "Rivlin is a
sycophantic politican," Amir said in a Facebook post.

How the Rabbinate creates bastard children
In a recent case, a divorced woman was denied right to remarry because
she has a baby and is subject to halachic rule of nursing. After asking
her intrusive questions, religious judges decide to include her son on a
secret blacklist of 'mamzerim.'

In the Dark on the ‘Dark Side’
The “War on Terror” – now more than 14 years long – has trapped the
U.S. and other nations in the “dark side” of human behavior, a dilemma
that is both moral and practical because the continued use of brutal
methods has only made the crisis worse, as Nicolas J S Davies explains.

How would Orwell feel about today’s college campuses?
As students ‘occupy’ Brandeis University this week, a look at how the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict is playing out at universities in a new
post-PC world order
Le complot du lavage de cerveau pro-palestinien
dans les universités? LOL Et ce sont ces gens là qui voient du lavage de
cerveau pro-palestinien partout qui exigent plus de contrôle de la
pensée dans les milieux universitaires...

US Jews still haunted by Pollard affair
Three decades have passed since the Israeli spy's conviction, and
American Jewry is still finding it difficult to recover from the
embarrassing affair. 'Voicing an opinion on the issue could help
anti-Semitic bloggers seeking to question US Jews' motives,' says
pro-Israel activist.

IDF Censors Israeli Media Report Exposing Israeli Double Agent
Yesterday, I broke a major story revealing for the first time that
Boris Krasny, a wealthy Israeli business and political fixer, once was a
KGB agent turned by the Mossad, who became an Israeli double agent. He
is credited with exposing another major spy in Israel, Marcus
Klingberg, who’d worked for the KGB for nearly 30 years, while serving
as a high-level scientific researcher in the field of biological
warfare.

Fascism in Israel? It's Up to You
I'm sick to death of the Zionism of horseshit, of the incitement which
prides itself on hatred and, yes, that 'beautiful face' of fascism. It's
up to every one of us. We can stand up now, or be put down later. Like
dogs. A Plant Named Occupation Has Grown Into a Deep-rooted Tree
When someone says something against the occupation, he is attacked as
if he is the ultimate enemy of all Jews from the time of Moses to Yair
Lapid.

Online store tells customer: 'We don't sell to Arabs'
A youth from Haifa called the website of shop 'Class Deal' after the
shoes he had ordered 4 months ago never arrived; a site representative
swore at and insulted him: 'You dog, you terrorist, if I'd known you
were a stinking Arab I wouldn't have approved your order.'

The Protocols of Anti-Semitism Part One:
The Protocols of Joly (takeourworldback.com)
Refutes the nonsensical claim about the Protocols of
Zion being a "forgery", which, for example, is based on a claim that Russian
secret police were hard at work "forging" a document to smear the Jews, and they
inexplicably chose to reveal their secret plot to a woman who'd just been
exposed in the press in April of the previous year as a destitute confidence
trickster, and had been released from prison in August of the previous year for
crimes of forgery, fraud, bribery and blackmail - and they show it to the
fraudster's friends. (!) And the Jews' argument that anti-Semites fabricated the
Protocols to make people hate the Jews relies on a claim that a Jew helped to
write the Protocols to make people hate the Jews. More importantly, it shows who
really wrote the Protocols, and how the perpetrators plagiarized Joly to steal
his Machiavellian program for world domination for their Zionist project, which
allowed them to get away with their next two massive hoaxes: the Hoax of the
twentieth century and the Hoax of the twenty-first century.